by Jennifer Grocott | 30th December 2020 | Bookkeeping, Limited company, Sole trader, Start ups, Tips and Tricks, Xero
Rather than a necessary evil, bookkeeping is vital to the success of your business. You’ve chosen Xero because you know having the best technology on your side is going to make it far easier on you to get the bookkeeping done and see that success faster. In the past,...
by Georgi Rollings | 9th October 2020 | Business Planning, Limited company, Sole trader, Start ups
In order to make the kind of decisions that will enable you to grow month on month, year on year – you need to know how well your business is performing. It’s awfully hard to make a sound decision when you don’t have anything to base it on, isn’t it? That’s why...
by Jo Wormald | 4th September 2020 | Business Planning, Tips and Tricks
Hospitality folks – hang in there. These last too-many-months of COVID have been hard on you. Not only have you had to adapt to a national lockdown, but you’ve come out the other side faced with fresh new challenges to overcome. * Reduced covers due to social...
by Juliet Wylie | 31st July 2020 | Bookkeeping, Tips and Tricks, Xero
‘Open Banking’ can sound a little bit scary at first. When you’re thinking about banking, you’re not thinking “Hey I’d like my finances to be out in the open thanks”. Don’t worry – that’s not what it means. Although it sounds sketchy, Open Banking actually...
by Georgi Rollings | 15th July 2020 | Accounting, Bookkeeping, VAT
Your business ‘turnover’ is not your ‘profit’, though often we find the two can be confused. ‘What is turnover?’ is one of those questions candidates get asked on Dragons Den, and many business owners on the show get muddled trying to explain it. We get why! It’s...